Fourth, the review and the scope of possible conclusions are limited by the questions, methods, and samples considered by the authors of the primary studies: the existing body of empirical research may have applied an inappropriate methodology (e.g., unaccounted for confounders) or overlooked some factors.
However, as this was a one to one interview, and the conversation was responsive to the agenda of the interviewee rather than driven by the questions, this method nonetheless generated valuable data.
Table 2 summarises the reports of adverse events, medical histories and concomitant medications elicited by question method.
Transcripts were analysed thematically in terms of explanations given for differential reporting by question method, and how participants expressed themselves.
After attempting to discover further relevant data using the narrative method described above, participants were asked for help in exploring why their reporting differed by question method, with reference to their own trial data and reports.
Hence, in order to face with this problem, we suppose to collect data by means of the well-known unrelated question method proposed by Greenberg et al. (1971), and under the design-based framework, we propose to handle such a complex parameter as a population functional by suitably extending the linearization approach proposed by Deville (1999).
By basing editorial decisions on the question and method, rather than the results, pre-registration overcomes the publication bias that blocks negative findings from the literature.
We used two types of question sets in this experiment: machine-generated questions (MQs) created by the automatic question generation method briefly described in the "Automatic question generation" section and human-made questions (HQs) taken from the official sample question6 of TOEFL iBT® and preparation books (Educational Testing Service 2007 Sharpe 2006 Phillips 2006;Geandand Gear 2006).
Then do not, Stranger, deny us the first favour which we ask of you: I am sure that you will not, and therefore I shall only beg of you to say whether you like and are accustomed to make a long oration on a subject which you want to explain to another, or to proceed by the method of question and answer.
This lack of consensus on reading Etest method, which is often used as a secondary testing method to confirm questionable results generated by automated methods, raises the question of which, if any, of the methods are reliable enough to be used for confirmation testing of carbapenem nonsusceptibility, particularly in K. pneumoniae isolates.
